linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Central Direct Memory Access Engine driver support

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Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:39:38 +0200
From:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, <monstr@...str.eu>
CC:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	Kedareswara rao Appana <appana.durga.rao@...inx.com>,
	<dan.j.williams@...el.com>, <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	<michal.simek@...inx.com>, <soren.brinkmann@...inx.com>,
	<appanad@...inx.com>, <punnaia@...inx.com>,
	<dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srikanth Thokala <sthokal@...inx.com>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] dma: Add Xilinx AXI Central Direct Memory Access
 Engine driver support

On 06/09/2015 02:24 PM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:12 +0200, Michal Simek wrote
>> ok. Will check all our drivers we have to get it synchronized but I
>> expect that a lot of drivers have problems there.
> 
> So do I. Cleaning that all up would add a lot of churn. I'm _not_
> volunteering to do that.

Wolfram? You have been pretty successful with fixing owner field.
This looks like similar task.

> 
> What I decided to do was to (try to) comment on each patch that adds
> another license mismatch. The idea being that this might annoy someone
> into suggesting a (mostly) fool proof alternative to MODULE_LICENSE().
> That didn't really work out yet (though Julia's and your response is
> encouraging)
> 
> On the sunny side I note that very few new mismatches get added (at
> least, I tricked myself into believing that).

I expect that they will still come till this is properly reported by any
tool. And fixed everywhere because people just c&p drivers.

Thanks,
Michal

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